Improvement in devices for preventing oows from kicking



H. J. SADLER & s. H. SPENCER Devices for Preventing- Cows. from Kicking.

040,140,594, PatentedJuly8,1873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY J. SADLER AND SOLOMON H. SPENCER, OF MECCA, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR PREVENTING COWS FROM KlCKING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,594, dated Juy 8, 1573; application filed April 30, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY J. SADLER and SOLOMON H. SPENCER, of Mecca, in the county of Trumbull and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Device for Preventing Cows from Kicking while being Milked; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification.

s is a strip or narrow piece of wood or metal, to be applied lengthwise up and down to the outside of the cows leg, on the forward side of which strip, and near the ends, are two hooks, h h, of iron or other suitable material. These hook Over the forward part of the cows leg, fitting the same above and below the hough. Near the middle of-the strip is a strap, f, of leather or other pliable material, made fast at one end and extending backward, to

be drawn around the cows leg just above the hough. and to be fastened again to the strip by means of a spur on the strip.

This invention, being attached to the leg nearest the milker, will prevent the cow from lifting her foot upward and forward in her at tempts to kick, because it prevents for the time being the working of the hough-joint.

\Vhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A device for preventing cows from kicking, consisting of a strip of wood, 8, or other inflexible material, having the hooks h at each end and the pliable clasp f near the middle,

arranged and applied to the leg of an animal,

substantially as specified.

HENRY J. SADLER.

SOLOMON H. SPENCER.

Witnesses:

HERMEN LOVE, NOBLE MASON. 

